Sunday's season finale examines "the inability to escape the people our parents, whether by birth or by choice, made us," The Washington Post expounds. Although Jon Snow is a man of the Night's Watch, he is still Ned Stark's son, an important fact to Stannis Baratheon.

A defining moment of the Battle of Castle Black occurred when the Night's Watch dropped a scythe on the climbers. Take a closer look at how the scene was staged in the sketches below. (Spoilers ahead.)